Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Dark Victory (by George Brewer Jr. & Bertram Bloch; Alexander McKaig, producer). At least one star fell on Alabama when Tallulah Bankhead was born at Huntsville 32 years ago. Without tarrying long on the stage of her native land, this daughter of a Congressman and niece of a Senator went to England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight...
...Congressman was too obscure to issue a eulogy of the dead Speaker. One potent griever was Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, majority leader; another Representative William Bankhead of Alabama, Chairman of the potent Rules Committee; a third, Representative John McDuffie, also of Alabama. By normal "right of succession," Leader Byrns should be elected Speaker in January. Mr. McDuffie was an unsuccessful candidate when Rainey was elected in March, 1933. These two, Mr. Bankhead, and perhaps others, will doubtless be candidates for the Speakership again. A many-sided quarrel arousing factional bitterness will not make it any easier...
...lands west of the Mississippi River had combined with AAA acreage reduction to bring the crop down to 9,195,000 bales-25% below last year, and the lowest, with one exception, in 38 years.* This was more than 1,000,000 bales below the maximum set by the Bankhead Act and about 200,000 bales below the best private estimates of New York Cotton Exchange firms...
Such was the tumultuous prelude to House passage (250-to-92) of a stringent rule by which Speaker Rainey, Majority Leader Burns and Rules Chairman Bankhead can: 1) prevent any measure from being brought up which they do not desire; 2) prevent any amendment from being offered to bills before the House; 3) limit debate and force a vote on any measure within 40 minutes. Object: to finish the Administration's legislative program and adjourn by this week or next...
...them. Yet any one of them would be embarrassing to the Administration. Moreover, the longer Congress stayed in session the more likely was it that one or more of those bills could be forced to a vote. Therefore in conference with Speaker Rainey, House Leader Byrns and Rules Chairman Bankhead, President Roosevelt picked the legislation he wanted most. On his list of major measures to be passed before adjournment were bills...